New TSC Director/Chair Elections

[jasnell]

@nodejs/tsc ... Now that the TSC and CTC have been merged back into a single body, I would like to call for a new TSC Chair and Director election. The prior election was held when there were only 13 members. Now that there are 22 members, it makes sense to run the election again, giving others the opportunity to put their hands up and giving the larger group the opportunity to vote.

@Trott and @mhdawson each have my absolute confidence and trust as chairs, but our process allows for only one official chair, so a decision would definitely need to be made there.

The way that we have done this previously is to provide a period for individuals to self-nominate.

[Fishrock123]

I suggest that we have an at minimum 2 week nomination period.

[joemccann]

@jasnell I have a couple of questions:

1. If the TSC and CTC are now a single body, what is this body now referred to as? TSC? CTC? Something else?

2. Since the TSC is now more or less absorbed into the CTC or dissolved altogether, help me understand the need for a new Chair for the nonexistent TSC? Obviously this question could be moot based on the answer(s) to my first question.

Thanks for your consideration.

[refack]

I want to ask why isn't the election open to a larger body (all Members or Core-Collaborators)?

P.S. to vote on, not nominate or be nominated.

[jasnell]

@joemccann ...

1. The "new" body is called the TSC and falls under the TSC Charter. Essentially what the merger did was dissolve the CTC and pull it's membership into the TSC.

2. It's the other way around. Whereas before we had a CTC Chair, a TSC Chair, and a TSC Director, now there are only two positions: the TSC Chair and TSC Director.

@refack : In theory, the TSC could establish a process for voting among the full collaborator base but that proposal has not been made yet. If you have specific ideas on that, I invite you to open an issue or (better yet) open a PR with specific text. I do not think that a TSC Charter change would be required.

[jasnell]

I'd like to make it clear that I will not be nominating myself for either position.

[joemccann]

@jasnell thank you kindly for the clarification

[mhdawson]

+1 and I'd agree that 2 weeks to allow nominations makes sense.

[williamkapke]

Note 1: Pretty cool. 😎

Note 2: The elected Director will serve the remainder of the term of the resigned position. By-Laws Section 4.6

Note 3: @mhdawson Are you resigning your position? Please drop a note- otherwise, you remain the person filling the By-Laws defined "Chair" role.

Note 4: The TSC charter still contradicts the By-Laws; it only mentions a Chairperson that serves on the board. When there is a conflict like that, the By-Laws win.
^{I'm still hoping the TSC will update Section 7 in the future to remove this confusion.}

Note 5: The By-Laws do not restrict who can serve in the positions (e.g: TSC member). The TSC Charter, however, restricts it's definition of a "Chairperson" to the TSC members.

Note 6: I will not be nominating anyone.

[mhdawson]

@williamkapke are you saying I need to resign for their to be a new vote on the Chair position ? I believe we should have a new vote but have not yet figured out what I want to do going forward.

[mhdawson]

To clarify I'm happy to do whatever we need for the new vote to take place, just want to do what is best in terms of transition between now and when the vote is completed.

[williamkapke]

@mhdawson Cool. Yes, you need to officially resign the position. You've basically said it already... but a solid statement is always better to avoid confusion. (maybe just edit above?)

EDIT: Actually, you can resign pending a condition. e.g.: effective when the new chair is elected.

[yunong]

I would like to nominate @mhdawson for chair and @jasnell for director.

[mhdawson]

To make it official:

" In order to allow for a new vote on both the TSC Director and TSC Chair following the merge of the CTC/TSC I resign effective the same day that the vote for the new representatives opens".

I've worded this way to minimize the gap where we don't have representation but if that does not work for some reason just let me know.

[jasnell]

@yunong ... thank you, I appreciate the vote of confidence. What I would like to see at this point are others on the TSC being willing to step up and fill the role. If no one else does step forward by the time the nominations close, then I will accept the nomination.

[ofrobots]

@MylesBorins is OOO for a couple of weeks, but I think he wanted to volunteer for the director position as well.